IRELAND
Irish Sun
By OLIVER CALLAN
9th March 2017
THE Tuam babies scandal has not only exposed horrors committed by the Catholic Church in mother and baby homes, but shows that everyone in society shared some responsibility for them.
The atrocities were carried out by a Church backed by the political and professional classes, with the acquiescence of those below them.
This week, a Taoiseach who has been a TD since 1975 expressed “shock” at learning about a scandal and cover-up that continued while he was still in the Dail.
The crime of being a woman who had sex outside marriage was enough to justify a lifetime of pain inflicted on them by an Ireland that is too often too fondly remembered.
That it happened at all is a shame on all society. That it was carried out mostly by nuns, women themselves, is almost impossible to comprehend. That we aren’t shouting from the rooftops demanding justice now is troubling.
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